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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

16487, 5268/12.

134 A.D.3d 639 (2015)

23 N.Y.S.3d 36

2015 NY Slip Op 09618

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. KASEEM WILLIAMS, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided December 29, 2015.

The court properly exercised its discretion in ejecting defendant from the courtroom, and thus precluding him from continuing to represent himself. By engaging, after proper admonitions from the court, in persistently obstreperous and disruptive conduct that warranted removal (see Illinois v Allen, 397 U.S. 337 [1970]), defendant necessarily rendered continued self-representation impossible. Moreover, disruptive conduct itself disqualifies...

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